2024 IN FILM

Of the 600+ titles I saw this year, these were my most favourite. A Top 30 & many many honorables! Also, my 2024 film ballot at the Wandering Image, highlighting the year's best in film by category.

              WALLACE & GROMIT

30.     VENGEANCE MOST FOWL

29.              RED ROOMS

28.    HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS

27.        THE SUBSTANCE

           

26.              THE ORDER

                  

25.

SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ÉTAT

24.           NICKEL BOYS

                      

23.                SLEEP 잠

22.           THE BRUTALIST

21.             LOOK BACK

20.  ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT

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19.   BETWEEN THE TEMPLES

18.            AGGRO DR1FT

17.                 EUREKA

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16.            STOPMOTION

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15.        I SAW THE TV GLOW

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14.            JANET PLANET

13.         ART COLLEGE 1994

                 

12.                  LIMBO

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11.         CLOSE YOUR EYES

10.                    ODDITY

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9. FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA

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8.                    CHIME

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7.            DUNE: PART TWO

              

               MY FIRST FILM

6.    [2024 version / expansion]

5.       EVIL DOES NOT EXIST

      

4.DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH

FROM THE END OF THE WORLD

3.             THE SETTLERS

2.       PICTURES OF GHOSTS

1.               THE BEAST

*****

ALSO ESSENTIAL. NOT RANKED.

↓other titles of 2024 I loved that could've placed↓

WANDER TO WONDER

DAHOMEY

HIS THREE DAUGHTERS

THE DEAD DON'T HURT

HOW TO 

MAKE MILLIONS

BEFORE GRANDMA DIES

DAAAAAALÍ!

UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE

C'EST PAS MOI

AND GRANNY WOULD DANCE

THE BECOMERS

THE GIRL 

WITH THE NEEDLE

THE COFFEE TABLE

CHALLENGERS

THE PROMISED LAND

[BASTARDEN]

INSTRUMENTS 

OF A BEATING HEART

CUCKOO

INSIDE THE

YELLOW COCOON SHELL

LOVE LIES BLEEDING

PROBLEMISTA

SIROCCO &

THE KINGDOM OF WINDS

BIRD

THE PEOPLE'S JOKER

100 YARDS

CHICKEN FOR LINDA!

RUMOURS

MARS EXPRESS

FLOW

CHRISTMAS EVE 

IN MILLER'S POINT

I LIKE MOVIES

JUROR #2

A DIFFERENT MAN

ENO

GHOST CAT ANZU

LONGLEGS

MEMOIR OF A SNAIL

THE SHADOW STRAYS

SUCH MIRACLES DO HAPPEN

EXHIBITING FORGIVENESS

R.M.F. IS FLYING

[KINDS OF KINDNESS]

THE HUMAN SURGE 3

THE BROWN DOG

THE VOURDALAK

RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: OPUS

MOUNTAIN QUEEN: THE

SUMMITS OF LHAKPA SHERPA

THE BIKERIDERS

FRESH KILLS

DÌDI 弟弟

YANNICK

GOOD ONE

BABYGIRL

NOSFERATU

2 BABIES:

BABY ASSASSINS II

SEPARATED

COBWEB

CHASING CHASING AMY

REBEL RIDGE

GREEN BORDER

VERMIGLIO

ANORA

NUBE

ANA MORPHOSE

SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE

BUTTERFLY IN THE SKY

STING

IN A VIOLENT NATURE

HIPPO

QUEER

INFESTED

 

A$AP ROCKY: TAILOR SWIF

MADS

BLITZ

ME

ÉTÉ 96

****

recap

2024

1. LA BÊTE (Bonello)
2. RETRATOS FANTASMAS (Mendonça Filho)
3. LOS COLONOS (FG Haberle)
4. DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH .. (Jude)
5. EVIL DOES NOT EXIST (Hamaguchi)
6. MY FIRST FILM 2024 (Z.Anger)
7. DUNE 2 (Villeneuve)
8. CHIME (K.Kurosawa)
9. FURIOSA (George Miller)
10. ODDITY (Mc Carthy)
11. CERRAR LOS OJOS (Erice)
12. LIMBO (Sen)
13. ART COLLEGE 1994 (Jian Liu)
14. JANET PLANET (Annie Baker)
15. I SAW THE TV GLOW (Schoenbrun)
16. STOPMOTION (R.Morgan)
17. EUREKA (Alonso)
18. AGGRO DR1FT (Korine)
19. BETWEEN THE TEMPLES (Silver)
20. ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (P.Kapadia)
21. LOOK BACK (Kiyotaka Oshiyama)
22. THE BRUTALIST (Corbet)
23. SLEEP (Yu)
24. NICKEL BOYS (RaMell Ross)
25. SOUNDTRACK TO COUP D’ÉTAT (Grimonprez)
26. THE ORDER (Kurzel)
27. THE SUBSTANCE (Fargeat)
28. HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS (Cheslik)
29. LES CHAMBRES ROUGES (Plante)
30. VENGEANCE MOST FOWL (Park/Crossingham)

RUNNER-UP:

WANDER TO WONDER (Gantz), DAHOMEY (M.Diop), HIS 3 DAUGHTERS (Azazel Jacobs), DEAD DON'T HURT (Mortensen), HOW TO MAKE MILLIONS BEFORE GRANDMA DIES (Boonnitipat), DAAAAAALÍ! (Dupieux), UNE LANGUE UNIVERSELLE (Rankin), IT'S NOT ME (Carax), & GRANNY WOULD DANCE (Mohajer), THE BECOMERS (Z.Clark), GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE (von Horn), LA MESITA DEL COMEDOR (Casas), CHALLENGERS (Guadagnino), BASTARDEN (Arcel), INSTRUMENTS OF A BEATING HEART (Yamazaki/Nyari), CUCKOO (T.Singer), INSIDE YELLOW COCOON SHELL (P.Thiên Ân), LOVE LIES BLEEDING (Glass), PROBLEMISTA (Torres), SIROCCO ET LE ROYAUME DES COURANTS D’AIR (Chieux), BIRD (Arnold), PEOPLE'S JOKER (V.Drew), 100 YARDS (Xu bros), LINDA VEUT DU POULET (Malta/Laudenbach), RUMOURS (Maddin/the Johnsons), MARS EXPRESS (Périn), FLOW (Périn), XMAS EVE IN MILLER'S POINT (Taormina), I LIKE MOVIES (Levack), JUROR #2 (Eastwood), A DIFFERENT MAN (Schimberg), ENO (Hustwit), GHOST CAT ANZU (Kuno/Yamashita), LONGLEGS (Perkins), MEMOIR OF A SNAIL (A.Elliot), SHADOW STRAYS (Tjahjanto), TAKIE CUDA SIĘ ZDARZAJĄ (Rupik), EXHIBITING FORGIVENESS (Kaphar), RMF IS FLYING (Lanthimos), HUMAN SURGE 3 (Eduardo Williams), THE BROWN DOG (Medina/Hallgren), VOURDALAK (Adrien Beau), RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: OPUS (Sora), SUMMITS OF LHAKPA SHERPA (Walker), THE BIKERIDERS (J.Nichols), FRESH KILLS (Esposito), DÌDI 弟弟 (Sean Wang), YANNICK (Dupieux), GOOD ONE (Donaldson), BABYGIRL (Reijn), NOSFERATU (Eggers), BABY ASSASSINS 2 (Yugo Sakamoto), SEPARATED (Morris), COBWEB (Kim Jee-woon), CHASING CHASING AMY (Rodgers), REBEL RIDGE (Saulnier), ZIELONA GRANICA (Holland), VERMIGLIO (Delpero), ANORA (Baker), CLOUD (Narváez/Estrada), ANA MORPHOSE (João Rodrigues), SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE (Mielants), BUTTERFLY IN THE SKY (Thomason/Whitcomb), STING (Roache-Turner), IN A VIOLENT NATURE (Nash), HIPPO (MH Rapaport), QUEER (Guadagnino), VERMINES (Vaniček), A$AP ROCKY: TAILOR SWIF (Haymann/Muggia), MADS (Moreau), BLITZ (McQueen), ME (Hertzfeldt), SUMMER '96 (Bédouet)

CLOUD クラウド (K.Kurosawa) 2025 release

OMAR & CEDRIC (N.Jack Davies) 2025

NOCTURNES (Dutta/Srinivasan) 2025 release

(festival films I loved that got no 2024 theatrical release & no distribution)

BIRD (Arnold), DAUGHTERS (Patton/Rae), L'ÉTOILE FILANTE (Abel/Gordon), NATIONAL ANTHEM (Gilford), SUGARCANE (Kassie/NoiseCat), IT'S WHAT'S INSIDE (G.Jardin), BLACK EYED SUSAN (McCrae), CRUMB CATCHER (Skotchdopole), STRANGE DARLING (Mollner), LE DEUXIÈME ACTE (Dupieux), TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIORS WALLED IN (Soi Cheang), NIGHTBITCH (Heller), ROOM NEXT DOOR (Almodóvar), DON’T MOVE (Netto/A.Schindler), KIDNAPPED (Bellocchio), THREE MUSKETEERS 2 MILADY (Bourboulon), HARD TRUTHS (Leigh), OUTSIDE (Ledesma), BADLAND HUNTERS (Heo Myeong-haeng), SELF RELIANCE (Jake Johnson), THE KILLER’S GAME (Perry), MARIA (Larraín), HANDLING THE UNDEAD (Hvistendahl), SPEAK NO EVIL remake (Watkins), DIRTY ANGELS (Campbell), OH CANADA (Schrader), STARVE ACRE (Kokotajlo), THE COLORS WITHIN (Naoko Yamada), SISTERS & NEIGHBORS! (Cyr), HOW TO COME ALIVE WITH NORMAN MAILER (Zimbalist), MERCHANT IVORY (Soucy), NO OTHER LAND (lots of peeps), THE LAST SHOWGIRL (Gia Coppola), AINDA ESTOU AQUI (Salles), THE PIANO LESSON (JD Washington), TIGER STRIPES (Eu), IN THE REARVIEW (Hamela), EMILIA PÉREZ (Audiard), WE ARE ZOMBIES (R.K.S.S.), GASOLINE RAINBOW (Ross bros), HOW TO HAVE SEX (MM Walker), THE DEVIL’S BATH (Fiala/Franz), RAP WORLD (O'Malley/Scharar), KILL YOUR LOVER (Austin/Siewert), UNION (Maing/Story), MAMBAR PIERRETTE (Mbakam), THIS CLOSENESS (Kit Zauhar), MUSIC (Schanelec), YOUTH: HOMECOMING + YOUTH: HARD TIMES (Bing), HERE (Devos), CHRONICLES OF A WANDERING SAINT (T.Gómez Bustillo), BETTER MAN (Gracey), SLOW (Kavtaradze), SEBASTIAN (Mäkelä), SEED OF THE SACRED FIG (Rasoulof), THE FIRE INSIDE (Morrison), FEMME (Freeman), IN THE SUMMERS (Lacorazza), LIFE AFTER FIGHTING (Foster), I THE EXECUTIONER (Seung-wan), THE IMAGINARY (Yoshiyuki Momose), SIXTY MINUTES (Kienle), NORYANG: DEADLY SEA (Kim Han-min), LOWLIFES (Guttikonda/Oliver), SARIPODHAA SANIVAARAM (Athreya), 1%ER (Yûdai Yamaguchi), TAKE COVER (McKinless), UPRISING (Kim Sang-man), HOSTILE DIMENSIONS (G.Hughes), AUGUST MY HEAVEN (Riho Kudo)